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The Boy and the Elephant.

Many years ago one of the most famous
elephants that travelled in this country
was Old Columbus. During one of his
summer trips through Virginia he stopped
at the town of D.. In the neighborine
town of H boy, Familiarity called
Dave, and notorious for leadership in all
kinds of mischievous tricks, determined
to show off before the other boys at Old
Columbus expense, and invited several Of
his companions to go with him.
Having come to the elephants stable
Dave gave him first candy, then cake, and
then finally cried: Now, boysw and
slipped piece of tobacco in his proboscis,
intending to get out of danger and enjoy
Old Columbus disgust and anger.
But before he could move Columbus
seized him and whirled him upward
through the opening overhead against the
roof of the stable.
Unhurt by his unexpected rise Dave
dropped on the hay now The other boys
below, supposing this to be the trick prom
ised them, cried out in admiration:
"Dave, Dave, do that againr
Dave, comfortably seated out of harms
way, very earnestly answered:
"No, boysl only do that trick once a
day" Youths Companion.
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1.-THE March to the Sea :"

From communication by General
Sherman in the Century we quote as fol-
lows: "One single fact about the March
to the Sea unknown to me was revealed
by General Grant in his Memoirs Vol.
H., page 375. Il was in favor of Sher-
mans plan from the time it was first SUBJ
mitted 10 me. My chief of staff however,
was very bitterly opposed to it, as l learned
subsequently, add finding that he could not
move me, he appealed to the authorities
at Washington to stop it.
II had been acquainted with General
John A. Hawkins, Grants chief of staff,
from the beginning of the war. He was
always most loyal and devoted to his
chief an enthusiastic patriot, and of real
ability. He was a neighbor OF General
Grant In Galena at the breaking out of
the war, lawyer in good practice, an in
tense thinker, and man of vehement ex-
preston; soldier by force of circumstances
rather than Of education or practice. yet of
infinite use to his chief throughout the
war and up to the hour of his death as
Secretary of War, in 1869. General Rawl-
ms was enthusiastically devoted to his
friends in the Western army, with which
he had been associated from Cairo to
Nicksburg and Chattanooga, and doubtless,
like many others at the time-October,
lS64-feared that was about to lead his
comrades in a 'wild-goose chase, not fully
comprehending the objects aimed at, or
that / on the spot had better means of ac-
| curate knowledge than he had in the dis
lance. He did not possess the magnificent
equipoise of General Grant, nor the con-
| tdence in my military sagacity which his
chief did, and | am not at all surprised to
| learn that he went to Washington from
City Point to obtain an order from the
President or Secretary of War to COM
pei Inc with an army of sixty-five
| thousand of the best soldiers which
America had ever produced to remain
| idle when an opportunity was offered such
as never occurs twice to any man on earth.
General Rawlins was right according to
the light he possessed, and / remember
| well my feeling of uneasiness that some
| thing of the kind might happen, and how
| free and glorious | felt when the magic
| telegraph was cut, which prevented the
possibility of orders of any kind from the
rear coming to delay or hinder us from the
fulfilling what l knew was comparatively
easy of execution, and was sure to be a
| long stride toward the goal we were all
aiming at-victory and peace from Nir-
| ginia to Texas. He was one OF the many
referred to by Mr.. Lincoln who sat in
| darkness, but after the event saw a gre1t
| light. He never revealed to me the doubts
| he had"
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launching in South America.

In 1885 there were IL 100000 sheep in
the United States, 100000 in Austria
liza, and l00,0000 900 in the Argentine Re-
public. We have two-thirds of a sheep
to every inhabitant; in the Argentine
Republic there are 25 sheep, and in Uru-
quay 40 sheep to every man, woman and
child. We have 100000 of horned
cattle to population of 100000; the
Argentine Republic and Uruguay have
3S,UOO,000 of cattle to population of
100000. In Uruguay, with a popula-
ton of 100000 souls, there are 100000
of cattle, 100000 sheep, 100000
horses, or 60 head Of stock for each man.
woman and child. Fifteen million dol
lars has been invested in wire fences in
Uruguay alone, and more than twice as
much in the Argentine Republic. In
either of the countries COW can be bought
for So, steer fattened for the market for
$40 or So, pair of oxen for $25, a sheep
for 30 or 90 cents, an ordinary working
horse for IS or $40 and a roadster for S25,
mule for SIS, and a mare for what
ever her hide will bring. Mares are
never broken to saddle or harness.
but are allowed to run wild in
the pastures from the time they are
foaled till they cease to be of value for
breeding, when they are driven to the
sdlederos or slaughter-houses, and killed
for their hides. A man who would use
mare under the saddle or before a wagon
would be considered of unsound mind.
There is a superstition against it.-Hdr-
pei'S Magazine for Norember.
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ABUSE OF TIE TOOTHPICK,
An Unobjectionable Little Instrument
When Used at Proper Times

The toothpick, when used with discre-
ton and at proper times and in proper
places, is an unobjectionable little instru-
ment. Its occasional employment is, as a
rule, necessary to cleanlin ess and the pres.
ervation of the teeth. So, also, is the use
of the toothbrush. This adjunct of the
toilet is, however, never used in public.
The person who, after partaking of a meal,
should proceed to publicly use his tooth
brush would speedily find himself ban
l.hed from decent society. Yet such action
would be less Objectionable to witness than
the service to which some people who
pretend to refinement and culture put the
toothpick. There is but one place in
which it may be rightly used-the dress
ing-room-and no person who has the
slightes consideration for the feelings of
others will handle it anywhere else.
1t would seem to be almost unnecessary
to make such statements as those in the
foregoing paragraph. No one possessing
any delicacy of feeling or squeamishness
of digestion will dream OF controverting
them. And yet the public use of the
toothpick is daily increasing, and has
already reached proportions that strike
the foreign visitor with establishment and
disgust, and make the lives of many of
our citizens anything but agreeable.
The practice has doubtless grown owing
to the large number of people who live or
have lived in hotels and boarding houses,
where toothpicks were furnished with the
idea that guests would take them to their
rooms, and in some of the good hotels
guests can even now only procure tooth
picks at the doors by which they leave the
dining-rooms. In other hotels and in
many boarding houses, and also, it is sad
to have to write, in some private houses.
the toothpick-holder is regular orna-
ment (?) of the meal table, and It's con-
tents are assiduously worked
In no other country that the writer has
ever visited have toothpicks been publicly
used in private houses or in the presence
of women. An English woman or a
French woman of the better class not only
never dreams of using toothpick before
people, but she considers it something that
1t is more pleasant not even to mention.
Here, however, it is now uncommon occur
renee to hear a lady ask for the toothpicks,
and select one that she thinks will fit her
needs-The Ep0ch
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HOW HIGH LICENSE WORKS.
Astonishing Facts and Figures from Ill
nols-A New York View

nois-A New York View.
William III. Harper, of Chicago. the
author of the Illinois high license law,
has been giving recently some additional
figures about its successful working, which
are very striking. The law levies a uni
form license of $500 upon liquor-selling
and of $50 upon beer-selling, and permits
any community to increase, by majority
vote, these licenses to any limit it pleases,
or to refuse, by the same vote, to grant any
license whatever. This, it will be OBJ
served, is a combination of the high IL
cense and local-option principles, which
virtually makes public sentiment in every
community the regulator of the liquor
traffic, the only exception being that no
community can allow hquor-selling with.
out taxation. The union of the two prin-
ciples has worked admirably in Illinois.
In many counties, estimated as comprising
two-thirds of the soil of the State, actual
prohibition prevails. The license fee has
been raised by popular vote to $1,000,
81 500, $4,000, and, in some instances. to
~, 200, with the result of completely sup
pressing the traffic. In the larger cities
the $500 fee has had the effect of greatly
reducing the number of saloons. Accord
ing to Mr.. Harper, Chicago, with popu-
lation of 100000, had $500 saloons, Weld
ing revenue to the city of about $500 600
year. Under the present law, with a
population exceeding 100000, there are
only $500 saloons, and the revenue from
them is sl,750,00o.
In other cities the effect is equally salts
factory. In Springfield the number of
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INEBRIErY AS A DIsEAsE-Dr. Croft

INEBRIETY AS A DIsEAsE-Dr. Crott-
ers, in his Congress paper, stated that GER
tain diseases seem to have special pre-
disposition to deyelope into inebriety with
out any exciting causes. In dipsomania
and periodical inebr1ety condition allied
to epilepsy was mentioned. The expIo-
sions of the craze for drink were called
nerve-storms. The regularity of these
period was mentioned. The evidences of
drink-cycles were described, and the tenn
perance intervals were affirmed to be re-
actions of the drink-cycles, and governed
by laws and forces unknown. Inebriety
was affirmed to be increasing, and becom-
ing more concealed, every year. The
coarser features were giving way to mania
and suicide, etc-Medical Record.
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The LATEST Thing IN Weddings
The latest thing in weddings is for the
bride and groom to keep as a profound Sc
cret the direction of the bridal trip. They
give out that they are going to Washington
or Niagara. Then they go to a hotel and
leave at convenient time the next morn
ing on their journey. Sometimes, in the
spirit of fun, mischievous friends find out
the destination of the bridal couple, and
send their congratulations to the hotel. A
case of this kind occurred recently in
Brooklyn. The groom had been party to
wedding jokes himself, and he took, as he
supposed, every preeaution to prevent his
being traced. All inquiries were baffied
He got driver who could not read. He
drove over the bridge and dismissed his
driver, and then drove in another coach to
an uptown hotel. He thought he had
evaded all the fun-makers The next
morning the bridal couple started for
Washington by the Pennsylvania route.
What was their establishment to find a
family delegation at the depot to bid them
good morning and to wish them joy on their
wedding trip. But how the secret leaked
out is mystery that the groom has been
unable to solve-N Y. Sun.
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DIET OF THE STONE AGE.-Fragments
of the food of our prehistoric ancestors of
the stone age have been brought to light
in curious manner by Charters White
and described by him to the Chronological
Society of Great Britain. The particles
were found imbedded in the tartar of the
ancient teeth, and the substances identified
include portions of corn husks, hairs from
the outside of the husks, spiral vessels
from vegetables, husks of starch, the point
of fsh's tooth, supposed oval cells of
fruit, barblets of feathers, portions of wool
and bits of cartilage. 1t is remarkable
that these remains of feasts eaten 5000
years or more ago should still be recogniz-
able
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Our YOUNG FOLKS.


THE TWO AABELS.
On tiptoe she stood, her head
Was Just above the table;
For she was only three years old
Our chubby little Mabel.
There, in looking-glass, she saw
Another Mabel in it.
Said she, "PI come and play with you
If you will wait q minute"
The little girl within the glass
Smiled kindly back at Mabel:
And so she brought her own high-chair
To climb upon the table.
But in her haste to reach the top,
She caught hold of the cover;
When chair and girl and looking-glass,
Together all went over.
And when we ran to pick her up,
To speak when she was able,
She sobbed, Where is the little girl
Who pushed me from the table?'
The Ddyspring
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OLD AGE.

When our ankles grow thick when our feet
grow fiat;
When our teeth and skin take yellowish
tinge;
When the face in the mirror which we look at
Makes US turn away; when each separate
hinge
In our legs, arms and back begins to squeak
When storm is twenty four hours away;
When nobody ever expects us to speak,
When were sleepiest at night; when we doze
through the day.
When our hair and our lips and noses grow
thin;
When our eyes grow dim, and their pupils are
wide
And the rings round the pupils grow white as
the skin
On the neck or the arms of a beautiful bride;
When no interest we take in men or in books;
When sweet lady's smile is nothing to us;
When we shun the crowd, and seek quiet
hooks;
When we hate the boisterous-
Whenwe never laugh; when we seldom smile;
When the blood in our bodies grow cold-and
paleS:
When our voices are thin as the tones of a file;
When our fingers grow big, and whitish their
nails;
When our youth seems as far away as the
stars;
When we pity youth, on account of the page
lie has yet to read: on account of the scars
HIS heart must bear-that is old age.
John Earnest McCdnR.
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permanently, and she has had no return OF
t." Another case is that of Mr.. r. b. Kyle,
Tower Hill, Appomattox county, Va, who
writes, November 1886: WAS afflicted foI
everal years with rheumatism and grew
worse all the time. Eminent physicians
,ave no relief; had spasms, and was not ex.
,ected to live; was rubbed all over with st.
he second removed the pain, continued use
ured me; no relapse in five years, and do a.
much work as ever" These are proofs of the
,erfection of the remedy, and, taken in con.
lection with the miracles performed in Other
asses. it has no equal
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MY FRIENDS, LISTEN TO ME-!

IVA haven't many words to say to you, but
they are to the point. you, or any member of
your family, or friends, are suffering from
coughs, colds, hoarseness, pleurisy, influenza,
pneumonia, or other chest trouble, or from
rheumatism, weak back, kidney affection, or
pains in any other portion of your body, take
my advice and use Benson's Plasters, an
old and standard remedy recommended by
leading physicians and druggists everywhere.
They are not ''nostrum," but scientific COM
bination of valuable medicinal Ingredients
overcoming and eradicating pains quickly and
permanently. Ask for Benson's and take none
other. however flatteringly recommended by
dealers. n29-1yTThS
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LIFE seems hardly worth the living to-
day to many tired, unhappy, discouraged
woman who is suffering from chronic
female weakness for which she has been
able 10 find no relief. But there is GER
tain cure for ali the painful complaints to
which the weaker sex is liable. We refer
to DR.. Pierce's - Favorite Prescription" to
the virtues of which thousands of women
can testify. As tonic and nervine it is
unsurpassed. All druggists.
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t not be reasonably called daylight
As for instance, take the case of Captain
sargent S. Day, Gloucester, Mass, who
writes April Is, 1881: "Some time ago ]
vas suffering with rheumatism. l used
mall portion of st. Jacobs Oil and was cured
1t once. 1 have used it for sprains and never
,nce have known it to fail. | will never be
without bottle" Captain Day also re.
,eived circular letter, and in reply under
late of July l, 1887. he SAYS: 81 used the
Dill as stated and was permanently cured OF
rheumatism by its use" During the inter
fening six years there had been no recur.
ence of the pain. Also letter from Mr.. II.
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Electric Belt Free

To introduce 1t and obtain agents we Will, for the
county in the U. s., q limited number Of our Ger
man Eiectro-Gaivanic Suspensory Belts
Price, s.; positive and unfailing cure for Ner-
vous Debility, Yariocele, Emissions, Impotency,
etc. $500 90 Reward paid If every Belt we manu-
facture does not generate genuine electric cur
rent. Address at once, ELECTRIC BELT
AGENCY, P. o. Boz 17S, Brooklyn, N. Y.
dl4-lyTuThS
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THERE is no doubt about the honest
worth of Ayers Sarsaparilla as a blood pu-
rifer. Thousands who have benefited by
its use will attest its virtues. This remedy
cures liver and kidney complaint, and
eradicates every trace of disease from the
SYSTEM
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F1Tsl-All Fits stopped free By DR.
Kline's Great Nerve Restorer No Fits
after first days use. Marvellous cures.
Treatise and So trial bottle free to Fit
cases. Send to DR.. Kline, 9S1 Arch street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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II. Converse, of the
Warren Mass
Herald, dated July
}, 1887, as follows:
In response to
yours of June %,
would say that in
1880 my wife had a
severe attack of
h u m atism in
shoulder and arm,
10 that she could
lot raise her hand
o her head. A few
Implications of st,
Tacobs Oil cured hor
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DAYLIGHT.

Ifa gentleman b,
the name of Day
volunteers to throw
the light of his ex
perience into the
darkened places OF
misery, SO tn a I
others may go anG
do as he has dons
and enjoy life, may
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Mabel Marsden's fortune was made; so
she congratulated herself as she gazed ex-
ultantly on the diamond ring which Col
onel Holbeck had placed upon her finger.
His words of love still vibrated in her ears,
but strange to say, there was no responsive
melody in her young heart, although her
lips had promised that she would become
his wife,
She was young girl not yet out Of her
teens-poor, beautiful and ambitious.
Colonel Holbeck was fifty-hale, gentle
manly and rich.
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1t will go to greater
lengths to build up
Northern and Central
California than any
paper on the Coast.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-07-19
Let Us Avoid .Fear KiiIinr..

Old Selden says in his "Table Talk, =
TO preach long, loud, and damnation is
the way to be cried up. Men love the
man who damns them, and run after him
to save them" The secret has, fear,
been beqneathed to our modern priests
the doctors. It is right and proper for
them to warn us In moderation; but they
do it beyond all reason tTouch nOtl
Taste mott Handle not! There s,death III
the pot. Ware microbes herei Ware
bacilh therel All the worlds hospital,
and al the men and women merely pa
ients." There Is no end to the ''host Of
specters palen which beleaguer us, sum-
moned by their spells and clothed with
double terrors by their alarming new
scientific titles. But there should be some
limit to this perpetual cry Of stWolfl
WOlfr We must all die sooner or later,
whether with scientific advisers or without
them; and it would, after all, be better to
die sooner, pursuing noble objects, per-
forming natural duties, and even enjoying
innocent pleasures, than little later,
amid pitiful anxieties and odious messes
and NEGOTIATIONS Of filth, leading the lives
of Moliere's ssAIalade Imaginairen Per-
haps we may never, alasi discover the Sc
cret Of Faith Healing;" but at least we
can avoid Fear killing dying by
inches Of sheer anxiety to live, and being
slain at last by the very dread of death
Frances Power C0bbe in The Contempt
rary Review.
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He then borrowed hat, took a rabbit
from under his coat as he walked away,
and put it into the hat. Then he took the
rabbit out Of the hat by the ears While
the spectators were examining that rab-
bit he held the hat close to his breast with
his right hand and put into it another rab-
bit with his left Then he placed both
rabbits on, the table, one hiding the other
from the spectators, dropped the latter
rabbit through trap, rubbed the remain
ing one, and said he had rolled two rab-
bits into one. A confederate In the audi
ence had third rabbit concealed In his
inside coat pocket. Hermann came down,
struggled with the man, and pulled the
rabbit out Of his pocket Hermann re-
turned to the stage, tossed the rabbit in
In the air, placed IL on q shelf behind the
table when it came down, made tossing
movement again very quickly, fired pis-
toll with his left hand, and looked mp a.
though he had thrown the rabbit into the
flies. Then the curtain came down for an
intermission; and IL had all been easy
enough to see through il you knew how
New York Sun.
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a remarkable c1ss hes lust happened,
ID which HindOo girl 81 seventeen, who
Was married IN her seventh year, applied
to British court Of justice for the resti-
tuition Of her conjugal rights on the ground
that as she was married ct an age when
she could not exercise her choice, and Is
her consent was not taken before she was
united to her present husband, she was
not bound to acknowledge her present
husband as her legal husband. The court
which first tried the case decided that the
girl was justified In making the prayer
and granted her application. But this was
against Hindoo law, and on appeal being
made to the higher tribunal BY the
husband Of the girl the order Of the
lower court was cancelled, and the girl
was ordered To 90 to her husband and
acknowledge him as such; but the Girl Is
unyielding, and has declared that she
would not obey the order Of the court. The
consequence win be that the girl win have
to 60 to Jail. This is unique case and
first Of the kind, and has succeeded in di-
recting the attention Of the more intelli-
gent and right thinking Of the Hindoo pop
ulation towards the evils Of child marriage.
Il i hoped that systematic and deter
mined effort viii now be made In order to
put down infant marriage in, India. -Jo-
gndra Nath Bose in New Orleans Times
Democrat
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A small, well made engine, with all
parts adjusted, will do more work than q
larger one with parts loosely constructed
and great disproportion between the i'm
portant members. So small man, COM
pactly built, with symmetrical proper
lions and q well balanced organism, can
accomplish more than, . larger man less
solidly made, with all parts wanting in
symmetry and shapeliness. This law Of
adaptation and harmonious adjustment Of
parts prevails throughout the greater por-
tiOn of the animal kingdom.
Among the civilized portion OF ting
human race it is controyerted by social
laws that tend to- foster inharmonious de-
velopment. The division of labor, for in
stance, has made it possible for man to
earn livelihood and to maintain q foot
hold in the world by the use Of very few
muscles and faculties. Professor p. a..
Sargent in Scribner's Magazine.